buybuydandavis comments on My Kind of Reflection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 September 2011 11:42:42PM 0 points [-]

I think Korzynski's concept of Order of Abstraction would be helpful here. Any evaluation occurs at some level of abstraction. An evaluation of the evaluation is a higher order abstraction. Believing that your abstraction applies to itself is just a confusion. Abstracting on an abstraction always creates a higher order abstraction.